Jape is a synonym for a

practical joke A practical joke, or prank, is a mischievous trick played on someone, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.Marsh, Moira. 2015. ''Practically Joking''. Logan: Utah State University Press. ...

. Jape or JAPE may also refer to: *

Jape (band) Jape are an Irish electronic–rock band from Dublin. Formed as a side project by Richie Egan whilst part of The Redneck Manifesto, they have released five albums to date; ''Cosmosphere'' (2003), ''The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me ...

, an Irish electronic/rock band *

JAPE (linguistics) In computational linguistics, JAPE is the Java Annotation Patterns Engine, a component of the open-source General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) platform. JAPE is a finite state transducer that operates over annotations based on regular e ...

, a transformation language widely used in natural language processing * JAPE, an automated pun generator *

Jape (software) Jape is a configurable, graphical proof assistant, originally developed by Richard Bornat at Queen Mary, University of London and Bernard Sufrin the University of Oxford. It allows user to define a logic, decide how to view proofs, and much more. ...

, a Java-based proof assistant * Java Annotations Pattern Engine – see

General Architecture for Text Engineering General Architecture for Text Engineering or GATE is a Java suite of tools originally developed at the University of Sheffield beginning in 1995 and now used worldwide by a wide community of scientists, companies, teachers and students for many nat ...

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